sorry

Something went wrong while I was posting my pics in the previous post, so it looks kinda weird, I'll fix it later, sorry!

DAY 8!

Last night I did go out with Marta again, and her Spanish friend. And I met many of her friends from Cork, who are SO funny! They're all musicians and they all have the typical Irish humour. Laughed my ass off :)
Afterwards, we went to another bar with just the three of us, great fun.
Again, I didn't sleep much, just 2 or 3 hours, and this morning I had a test. I scored 80% though, so I'm satisfied :)
Tonight I'm going out with April and her friends, hope they're nice!

X slan go foill mo chara X

DAY 7

hiii.

Yesterday I had a really good day! My teacher, Finbar was absent, and so another teacher, Suzanne, took his place. She's so...intriguing. I've never met someone as ultimately happy as she is! It's almost unnatural, like she's on drugs the entire time. Normally I think that's very annoying, but she's just amusing actually. Everytime you tell her something. Even stupid things, like...'I had a drink in the pub last night', she goes 'wooooow, that's lovely!'. 'wooow, that's fab', 'ohhh, good stuff', 'that's so cool', 'that's grand', 'wooow'. Frigging hippie!

We had fun, nevertheless. After school I went home for a shower, and went to Marta's home. Which was extremely hard to find, btw. But we had an amazing time, we have a very good connection, somehow. I promissed Soibian and Martyna to be in An Brog at 20.30, so we had to leave, but Marta came with me, and we've been talking for another couple of hours. What an amazing woman. Eventually she went home, and I joined Siobhain and her friends for drinks, before we went to a club. We've been dancing like crazy, too bad the music kinda sucked, though..

I got home about 3 o'clock, but somehow I managed to get up early this morning.
So I went to class, where we had so much fun :) Tomasso and Gabriella are kinda shy, but Katrin and Marta are so funny :)
My afternoon-class with Maeve was pretty interesting, we've been reading Yates' poems.

I don't really have plans for tonight yet, I should do my laundry :)
Maybe go have a drink with Marta, but not for long. Maybe I'll just take a walk. The wheather is lovely. Which is kind of Ironic, I think. It's raining pretty much everywhere around the world, but here in Ireland is very warm and sunny.

Well, that's it for today.

X slan go foill mo chara X

Picturepost

My teacher; Finbarr

I have no idea why these shoes are hanging here, but it's kinda funny..

Churchhunting:

Breakfast with the redheads: Jeroen and April

Cork:

My view:

My appartment:

DAY 6!

Hi again! :)
Ok, I managed to upload my pictures, well...still busy doing it. I hope I'll have a chance to post them soon, because there's an enourmous line behind me, they all want to use a computer.

Anyways, last night was quiet, but nice. Made my homework :p Sounds so weird.
My morningclass was fun, I think. But we were takting about the tenses, the rules. It kind of confused me. I have no idea what's the 'present simple' or the 'past perfect' is, I just use my intuition, I think... I should take a good look at it, though. There will probably be questions about it in my test on Friday.
After our coffeebreak I had pretty much fun with Marta, she really is cool :)
She invited me over for dinner at her place tonight. Should be fun, maybe go for a couple of beers afterwards. Tomorrow I'l go out with Martina, Siobhan and gang, Friday I'll go out for drinks with April and her friends. Busy shedule. Looking forward, though. Too bad Ireland is so damn expensive, though!

Ok, I'll post my pix later, bye!

DAY 5!

Hii!

So, I had a great weekend! Saturdaynight I went out, and it didn't start very well. I didn't have my ID on me. And they wouldn't let me in. And is a 20 minute walk from my apartment to this particular bar. It sucked. I didn't want to have a 40 minute walk, so I took a taxi. When I got back, they let me in and the bartender reconized me, and he was really nice. He said he'd help me to get to know some people, but he was really busy. Then one girl walked over, she saw what happened at the door with my ID and stuff, she was really nice. After half an hour she came up to me again to ask if I was alone. I said Yes, and she asked me to join her and her friends. (Martina, Rob, Raoul and Siobhan) They were really nice! Later that evening I met another friend of them, April, and she was really cool. We talked a lot about so many things, that by the time the pub closed, she walked home with me so we could talk more. When it was 5 in the morning we decided she should stay over. The next day, Sunday, Jeroen came over. He's a Dutch friends of mine, but he lives in Dublin for now. So the thee of us had breakfast. April had to go home after that, Jeroen and I walked around town, we've practically seen every church in Cork :)
Later we went to have dinner in a really cute Italian restaurant. Had a fun day!

This morning was a disaster, though. I would be my first day at school, but for some reason my alarmclock didn't go off. So when I woke up I checked the time on my phone...12 o'clock. I was in shock, really! I mean, somehow I managed to miss my first day at school! So I tried to call the school, but they didn't pick up. I was devistated! I decided to go there to appologise, try to fix things, so I quickly got som clothes and ran out of my room. Where I heard a shower. That was kind of weird, because my housemate usually doesn't come home that early. So I checked the time on the tv, and it actually was 7.30in the morning. God, what a relief that was!
So I had breakfast and we walked to school. We had to do a test to find out what level we were. God, that was the easiest test ever. Serously. I'm pretty sure I had all the good answers.
So, later, we got to class.I'm in the top class, yay! My teacher is really, really nice! There's only 4 students in this class. The woman who sat next to me, Marta, is from Spain. She travelled all around the world, it's so cool! I had lunch with her and her brother, and she asked me to go to a concert with them tonight, but unfortunately, it's sold out. My one-on-one afternoon class was really nice as well, my teacher, Maeve, is still very young, 27, so we mostly had a nice chat. Tomorrow she's gonna teach me about Irish history :)

I forgot to take my camera-cable with my, so I still didn't upload my pics. I willl, though, I promiss! Take care, x

DAY 3!

Already survived 2,5 days in Cork!
Yesterday my luggage arrived. You have no idea how happy I was my towels arrived. I really, really needed a shower and clean clothes!!
After I finished unpacking I went downdown to check out the city.
It's pretty cool. Many second-hand bookshops, many, many, many pubs of course.
I had lunch in a sandwichbar, and went the virgin musicstore to ask for information about the cool rock-bars. Thank God, there's plenty! There's a very big one in the middle of town, and pints are just 2,90 before 7.00 pm over there!!
Tonight a guy I got to know is DJ-ing over there. 'The cream of Irish and international alternative and indie bands', sounds great, right?
I noticed the alternative scene is much bigger here in Cork than in Holland. And the girls are prettier :D
I really miss Niki, though. It's weird to sleep alone.

Andrea Corrs' solo album is very popular over here, and it really sucks :S Although I;m not complaining about all her pictures in every magazine :)

My housemate is a 50 year old German guy, Kay. And although he wears socks in his sandals, he's a really nice guy. Not really someone to party with, though. I hope I'll meet some nice people tonight.

Monday my first class, I hope I'll be able to upload some pictures over there, you guys should really see them. byeee

SCHIPHOL!

Wow, ok, today is the day!
I'm alone at the airport and everything is going well.
I was a little freaked out, though. I wanted to cash some money, and the cashmachine told me I didn't have enough money, I had a limit of 250,- Ok, and since that's EXACTLY what I have to pay as soon as I arrive at my appartment, I tough I wouldn't be able to eat for a couple of days.
So I had to make a coice. Spend 3 euro's on 15 minutes of internet-acces, or keep it for some bread. Modern as I am, I chose the internet, and thank God. I have enough money. I probably have to go to my own bank to cast more than 250,-
It's 8.19 am, my plain will depart at 9.40 am, so I have some time to spend.
I think I'm gonna try and terrorize a plain :p

Anyways, more to come, I'll find and internetcafe in the neighbourhood. Wish me luck!!!

Danger Flowers - All Over Me

The space between what’s wrong and right
You will find me waiting for you.
All your fortresses go down in the night,
To the dawn I’ll see you through.

Cause I know, that you know
You’re all over me now.
And it’s clear, you will show,
And your curtains will go.
But if your heart is cold,
My sheets are warm,
I will shelter you
All through the storm.
I will shelter you
All through the storm.

friendship

Friendship is such a weird thing.
I mean, there are no rules. Sometimes I wish there were rules.
Just when I thought who my friends were, and what to expect from them, things change.
About two years ago, one of my best friends Anna decided she didn't want any contact with me. At all, ever. She told me that being my friend was exhausting, that she never liked me, that all she ever told me was a lie. That our contact depressed her deeply.
This news came out of nowhere to me. I was so down. But I didn't get angry with her. That is not what I do. I sucked it all in. A few months ago I wrote her a letter. To tell her I was still thinking about her. She wrote me back! I was very surprised. She told me her reasons, and that it had been the right decision for her. But that it wasn't her intention to hurt me. She also told me she was gonna travel to Nepal and stay there for a few months.
She just got back, and she mailed me again. She wants to meet.
Really weird. But great, I'm really looking forward! Sha also contacted my former best friend, he'd like to meet with us too, I'm really curious. :)

But now my best friend, Sanne, wanted to meet with me a week ago. She wrote me a letter. She wanted to read it out loud. She told me how our friendship was too heavy, too intense sometimes. That it was too hard to handle sometimes. That she wanted to stop having contact for at least 3 months. Again I was stunned. I SO didn't see this coming!! I wish I did! I wish I could have done something about it!
I feel so fucked up now, so confused. I wrote her a letter, but I didn't post it yet.

God, this is typical. My first post is a sad one.
I did some really good things too, this weekend! I went to see a play, and it was really cool! Afterwards we went to have a drink w/ a few people, and it was so much fun!! Around 2 pm my coach came in, kinda drunk. Really funny.
We've been dancing with her on stage, getting even more drunk. Good times :)
And yesterday we went to Tori Amos-concert! She fucking amazing!! And very hot!